Masayoshi Son Quotes
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If I go to the department store, I get no excitement: I can buy the entire department store instead of one bag. So I lost excitement of shopping.
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I'm the king of debt.
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God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.
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When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.
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Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.
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In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.
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It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there.
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Just like I gave Jack Ma and Alibaba the luxury of staying private for longer, I am now giving Arm the gift of being private. My only message to them now is take my investment and let's go, go, go.
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I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.
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My passion never fades out.
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InMobi is not just an India-focused company, but it is a global player.
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Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me.
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Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.
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There will come an age when our average life expectancy will reach 200 years.
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The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.
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I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.
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Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.
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As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
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I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.
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I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.